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The evolution of color naming reflects pressure for efficiency: Evidence from the recent past

Noga Zaslavsky*, Karee Garvin*, Charles Kemp, Naftali Tishby, Terry Regier
2022 Journal of Language Evolution
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The forms and meanings of grammatical markers support efficient communication

Francis Mollica, Geoffrey Bacon, Noga Zaslavsky, Yang Xu, Terry Regier, Charles Kemp
2021 PNAS
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Let's talk (efficiently) about us: Person systems achieve near-optimal compression

Noga Zaslavsky*, Mora Maldonado*, Jennifer Culbertson
2021 CogSci
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Empirical support for a Rate-Distortion account of pragmatic reasoning

Irene Zhou, Jennifer Hu, Roger P. Levy, Noga Zaslavsky
2021 CogSci
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A Rate–Distortion view of human pragmatic reasoning

Noga Zaslavsky, Jennifer Hu, Roger Levy
2021 SCiL
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A Rate–Distortion view of human pragmatic reasoning

Noga Zaslavsky, Jennifer Hu, Roger Levy
2020 arXiv preprint
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Toward human-like object naming in artificial neural systems

Tiwalayo Eisape, Roger Levy, Joshua Tenenbaum, Noga Zaslavsky
2020 BAICS @ ICLR
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Rate–Distortion theory and pragmatic reasoning

Deterministic annealing and the evolution of Information Bottleneck representations

Noga Zaslavsky, Naftali Tishby
2019 Technical report
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Semantic categories of artifacts and animals reflect efficient coding

Noga Zaslavsky, Terry Regier, Naftali Tishby, Charles Kemp
2019 CogSci
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